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Boo hoo McDonald’s lost a huge sum of money,I’m sure it didn’t phase them, they underpay employees because they’re greedy lowlife fucktards, sell shitty sub par food, that has a quality a roach wouldn’t even enjoy, they make billions screwing people out of money, so I guess what goes around comes around...

I remember a contest that I think was Pepsi where you bought a Soda and under the Cap was a # to Win a prize. The thing was if you tilted the bottle correctly, you could see the number that was under the Cap, if the number was not a winner you simply kept looking under the cap for the right one. Not sure what happened after this was discovered.

Why should you become righteous NOW? 2 Peter 2:4-9 (NIV) For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to HELL, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its UNGODLY people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by BURNING THEM TO ASHES, and made them an example of WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE UNGODLY; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)- if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the UNRIGHTEOUS for PUNISHMENT on the day of judgment. I know it is hard to do what is right all the time, but I want to warn you, so that you have time to change. Love ya!

Beer drinkers are hailing a victory against brewing giant Fosters over a pricing scandal linked to the downsizing of their favourite stubby.

A sales manager from the Fosters-owned Cascade Brewery in Hobart today admitted "we got it wrong".

Cascade was accused in March of making a stealthy grab for more profits when it reduced the size of its 375ml twist-top Pale Ale stubby by 45ml to a sleeker "European-style" 330ml bottle without changing the price.

Cascade spokeswoman Liz McLachlan today said the carton price of the 330ml prise-top bottles, at the time of their launch, dropped by $4.27 per carton in Tasmania but stayed the same on the mainland.

"There was a wholesale price reduction in Tasmania, but not anywhere else," Ms McLachlan said.

The brewer is promising to sell the resurrected 375ml stubby at its 330ml price.

But Tasmanians are set to benefit ahead of mainlanders again.

Cascade sales manager Dom Bury said Tasmanians would be the first to access the return of the 375ml stubby from early November.

But the rest of Australia will follow "during 2009", he said.

Mr Bury put a positive spin on the about-face today as his team shouted beers at several Hobart pubs.

He said he was celebrating the change back after listening to beer drinkers who had not liked the change in size and said they preferred an easy twist top opening cap.

"We got it wrong, which is something we regret, and now we're fixing it," he said.

The move to reduce the stubby size - yet maintain the same price - resulted in a massive drop in sales with some outlets reporting a 50 per cent drop-off in sales.

I can't imagine how dumb you would have to be to not pre-empty the garbage-disaster that would result from releasing that many freaking balloons! Where did they think they were going to go? To heaven? lol wtf

Top 10 Worst Promotions That Lost Companies Millions Of DollarsNo 9 - "Walkers crisps had to pay £660,000".So neither dollars or millions then? Shouldn't be on the list.Also, they sold millions of packets of crisps (they sell in average over 10 million a day) for people to have a go at guessing, they made a lot of money from the promotion, not lost it."You could argue it ended up working as a marketing promotion since it made people remember the name Walkers crisps"You could also argue that Walkers crisps have been unbelievably well known in the U.K. since they began production in 1948, long before this promotion and was very much remembered before it and they hold the majority of crisp sales in the U.K. too.

I remember as a kid eating McDonald for a week or two..maybe three every night in 84, to the point we all got sick of it. Scratching those little tabs, and getting a coke or a small fry. Its hard to believe they lost money since if we won a small coke, or even a Big Mac we still had to by the rest of the meal for the entire family.

I remembered when Pepsi had a billion dollar promotion and someone could win a billion dollars... So the person that got selected gonna win right? Wrong...! The person had like a 10 digit number/letter code and they had a monkey picked out 10 number/letter combination.. And if it matched, then he/she would win the billion.... I was very young then, and dont quite remember the details, but it kinda went something like that... But even as a young child, I felt that the promotion was total bullshit and felt like I was cheated! The whole community was excited about it and all watched on live television to see who was the lucky billion dollar winner.. Turned out to ve a load of bull! The chance to win it was next to nothing.

History is full of these. The egg coalition came up with. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. to sell more eggs. Now people believe this it a true fact of good heath. Nostradamus writings. when the printing press became easy and cheap to print books. company's bought up copyrights to print old books. When they got to what he wrote. they asked there marketing to come up with a way to sell his gibberish. After all converting Latin to English never works right. So they said. Say he is a profit and these are his productions for the future. Now people think this is true and the few sad lines, people connect out of several volumes of books. proves there pathetic point. Hister was a river near where he lived. not a German madman. Rivers do rise and fall. After all if you're a profit, you should be able to spell his name right. But no profit has ever won the lottery. But marketing company's rake it in with coming up with stupidity people belive.

I’m from Taiwan and Duracell entered Taiwanese market when I was a kid. They had a pink bunny in their commercials. When I moved to US at age 25 and saw Energizer bunny, I thought “wow what an ugly copycat! Duracell bunny is way cuter!” It took me a long time to realize Energizer bunny was actually the original.

At that time people were angry at Pepsi co. in the Philippines. So much so that people threw stones at the Pepsi co. delivery truck. Nationwide boycott of Pepsi as its height during that time. Coke become number one... I wonder if Pepsi sales recovered to this day? People understood that Pepsi were fooling people. Thats why criminal cases were filed. No need to promote products if the product is good and priced reasonably. By word of mouth alone... that the product is best will surely help its sales to shoot up.

Back when I worked at Blockbuster, they ran a promotion where you could get a "One-Week Movie Pass" that gave you unlimited rentals for $10. It paid for itself after just two rentals. We were told to sell it for literally like 4 days before corporate issued an emergency memo telling us not to sell it anymore because it was hugely unprofitable. But Blockbuster was a very well-run company that never made any mistakes, like refusing to buy Netflix when offered, so I'm sure they bounced back.

It obviously wasn't an Apple exec who came up with the idea. It was U2 themselves that pitched the idea.. furthering their world domination-ambitions. Dude sucks the Pope's cock, for Christ sake. Now that's a big-money sell out. (google it)

Actually, the SU boycotted the Olympics 4 years after the USA had boycotted the soviet Unions Olympics behind held in Moscow.To further the discussion, I'd also like to say: SU also did not start the cuban missile crisis, the USA did. They pointed missile silos from turkey directly at Russia, and earned a similar response.I get it though, evil Russian ;)

Duracell didn't adopt the Pink Bunny as a result of Energizer's campaign. Duracell used the Pink Bunny first, that's why people thought the Energizer bunny commercials were advertising Duracell. The Energizer bunny was a spoof off Duracell's pink bunnies. Thus why in the Energizer commercials, you see a multitude of pink bunnies all die out except for the one with the Energizer battery.

this one is kinda limited to ohio, but we got a ice cream place that has a deal every summer to get gas from their places cheap. 5 shakes gets you 50 cents a gallon. when it first came out their shakes were on sale for such a low price you could actually make them pay YOU to pump gas if you got enough.

Can't remember if it was Pepsi or Coke who set a billion dollar prize. I think it was Pepsi but never heard of the winner. No one else seems to remember this event but I knew it was a bad promotion from the start.